Nvidia does. AMD doesn’t.

Intel probably could, but their margins are too slim.

Intel will still produce domestic CPUs. There is too large a market not to, in the corporate and government sectors.

They’re just also doing orders externally. These will largely all be consumer-only segments.

only ~900?

Not bad.

Typically see quotes in the 4-figure ranges.

You have to remember if you aren’t DIY you’ve gotta pay for their labor, knowledge, and overhead.

I went from 10850K to 12700K.

No regrets.

I would not have upgraded from 11700K or 11900K though. 11th and 12th gen perform so close to eachother in general.

Yeah.

It’s a pity Lenovo discontinued the X1 Nano. That would be an excellent fanless platform (the fan it comes with as is is ineffectual as it has to pass through a half-mm cooling egress slot and barely has flow.)

Apartments are small and easy to cover.

Just get a more powerful router to start with. Maybe one with swappable antenna jacks.

Position the antenna perpendicular to the direction you want to aim them. Maybe replace one antenna with a flat panel directional antenna aimed where you need coverage fill.

If that doesn’t work, you’ll want to run ethernet (apartment, so tuck under baseboards) to the dead zone and install a wireless access point (WAP) at the end.

You’ll be able to handle any non-K CPU as long as you keep it set to 65W in bios (maybe 90 at max)